Central Jakarta Metro Police arrested 6 pickpocket gangs who often act at the Jakarta Kemayoran Fair or Pekan Raya Jakarta (PRJ), Kemayoran District, Central Jakarta. Of the 6 perpetrators, 5 of them are women.
"They almost every day enter PRJ. They have started spending the night since July 6. Apart from arresting 6 perpetrators, we also confiscated 13 cellphones," said Central Jakarta Metro Police Chief Kombes Komarudin when confirmed, Tuesday, July 18.
According to the perpetrators' confessions, other cellphone evidence has been sent (sold).
"The remaining 13 units were stolen. They were arrested at a hotel in the Gunung Sahari area which was raided," he said.
The six female pickpockets with the initials KR (23), FE (25), JP (39), AB (18), and SS (47), and a man with the initials FB (31). After being examined, they claimed to be operating in the Jakarta Fair Kemayoran area or Pekan Raya Jakarta (PRJ).
Kombes Komarudin said they pretended to be family in the PRJ area.
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"Their work patterns are like families who are traveling there, jostling and the system is covering each other up," he said.
"If we look at the people who were arrested, some were old, some were young. Like family," he said.
For their actions, the six perpetrators face criminal charges Article 363 of the Criminal Code with a maximum imprisonment of seven years.
Previously, it was reported that visitors to the Jakarta Fair or Jakarta Raya Week at JIExpo Kemayoran, Central Jakarta, were surprised by the pickpocket action allegedly carried out by a middle-aged pair of perpetrators on Friday night, June 23.
The perpetrator was caught stealing a cellphone by the victim and there was a commotion between them. This incident made other visitors excited.
A man who was a pickpocket victim also found several cellphones in a woman's bag. Other visitors who saw and were curious about the pickpocket's actions immediately approached the scene. They gathered and detained the perpetrators.
One of the visitors recorded the action in an amateur video which later went viral on social media. No security officers were seen in the video.
The female perpetrator tried to escape when the visitors and the victim were careless. However, his actions were seen by other visitors. He was finally secured by visitors and handed over to security officers.
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